Christian.

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Yesterday on the show then, we got the story from Fiona, and I thought we could get some more stories about things blown away and flying away.

Christian, I bought a big painting on canvas.

They bought it out to the car, and I realized it was too big to Fintler Station wagon I had.

So I tried to attach it to the roof rack with string and duct tape.

I love it. You know, when you see people who have tried to do this, they don't have a proper straps. It's only two case. It's not far and they look so nervous. You know, that isn't making it back to your house. I thought if I drive home at Snails pace, everything would be okay. It wasn't. about 200 metres up the road the painting flew off the roof and landed in the middle of the road. And I had to stop the traffic. So yesterday we talked about why did you have to stop the traffic? But I think there might be more stories from you this morning on 9-414-1043 about things flying away. I remember being up about a year and a half ago on a holiday. We're up on the Gold Coast and I brought this gazebo to protect us from the sun. And suddenly the wind changed really quickly. And the gazebo, I remember being just in the sea. I could see this gazebo tumbling. It was like doing several flipping out. So people were like moving their kids out the way.

You know, and they're looking down the beach going, where's the jerk that didn't secure this or enough sand? I was like, we don't need to wait it down too much. There's a lovely sunny day, kids. I then had to get out and run. I was actually chasing this gazebo. And it's bloody hard to get one of those and start to hold it. Because it became then a kite of sorts, as the wind was behind sort of pulling me.

At what point do you just leave it and go, shuffle it? And it's bloody hard to get one of those and start to hollered. Because it became then a kite of sorts.

As the wind was behind sort of pulling me. At what point do you just leave and go, shuffle the family off the beach and go, it's not ours. Someone else's problem. Yeah. Jackie Boy, have you got a story about something flying away? I had one over summer. I tried to do a DIY project with mum and dad's old outdoor umbrella, one of the big ones that you hoist above an

outdoor setting and i took the top off it and just put the canvas umbrella on the outdoor i guess

it's like an open pegoal of the backyard so it's got no shade and i thought i'll just use the big

umbrella and make a shade cloth with it tied it down it down with metal wire. So I thought it was solid. It wasn't even a week up there before it snapped the wire and blew off. Wow. Where did you go next doors? No, thankfully it didn't because if it did, it could have really caused some damage. It just went further into the backyard. So what? Just like metal wires? You can't use cable ties or anything?

No, I thought it was stronger. I thought metal wire was stronger than cable ties. No, no, no. The cable ties would have come off. Surely plastic is weaker than metal. No. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Patsy, what's your story? What flew away, mate? Dad was taking me to uni back in the day, and he had strapped my wardrobe on the top of the roof. Or actually, no, he'd sort of put the wardrobe in the back of his ute on the tray and, like, put straps around the cab. You mean like a wooden sort of wall, the actual wardrobe? Yeah, like an old style wardrobe.

Because there wasn't a wardrobe in my room.

And it got those, you know, those stretchy sort of things. In my mind, this is a walking one. It's an actual room. The floor, the ceiling. The most elegant room at universities. It's an entire room being towed. You know, you see those wide loads. It's one of those cabins. is Patsy's walking wardrobe for university. I wish it was.

No, it was just one of those second-hand old wooden ones

that was about 100 years old. But used to weigh a ton, didn't they? We used to weigh a ton. Anyway, so we were setting off from country Victoria into Melbourne and we hit about Eroa and Dad had to break suddenly on the freeway and this thing, You could just hear like the twing of those stretchy things with the hooks on the end. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they'd come loose. And the thing just, I swear, just flew over the top of the cab and just banged in front on the freeway. And it was spinning like some sort of breakdanance on its back just going round and round and round.

It was just, and it just fell apart.

Oh, no, and all your 90s and my hair peel is.

Oh, flying across the freeway.

I didn't know those things are called octopus springs.

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